Meaning not yet researched.
Twila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #464 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #464 in 1934; #3,512 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Twila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,512 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #464.
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Twila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #464 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 304 (1960).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Twila, making it the 3,512th most common girls’ name of the year, up 374 places from #3,886 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 39 girls named Twila in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #464, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 304, in 1960. For comparison, it was #6,018 in 2015 and #707 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Twila in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 6 babies. In all, 11,922 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,026 babies named Twila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 291 US girls were named Twila; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Twyla (7,192 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Twilla, Twylla and Twylah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Twilla (1,205), Twylla (292), Twylah (134), Twilah (20).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Twila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,226 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,656 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,601 | — | — |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,025 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,602 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #6,018 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,784 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,137 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,871 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,053 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,859 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,040 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,761 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,694 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,873 | — | — |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,201 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,786 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,421 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,944 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,927 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,113 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,553 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,646 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,654 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,708 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,891 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1979 | 72 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1976 | 78 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1975 | 107 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1972 | 108 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 1971 | 124 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1970 | 147 | #902 | — | — |
| 1969 | 132 | #928 | — | — |
| 1968 | 139 | #874 | — | — |
| 1967 | 137 | #871 | — | — |
| 1966 | 157 | #789 | — | — |
| 1965 | 163 | #779 | — | — |
| 1964 | 210 | #716 | — | — |
| 1963 | 229 | #668 | — | — |
| 1962 | 226 | #688 | — | — |
| 1961 | 252 | #644 | — | — |
| 1960 | 304 | #563 | — | — |
| 1959 | 241 | #644 | — | — |
| 1958 | 283 | #591 | — | — |
| 1957 | 213 | #677 | — | — |
| 1956 | 211 | #660 | — | — |
| 1955 | 205 | #655 | — | — |
| 1954 | 178 | #698 | — | — |
| 1953 | 196 | #638 | — | — |
| 1952 | 173 | #677 | — | — |
| 1951 | 177 | #655 | — | — |
| 1950 | 149 | #707 | — | — |
| 1949 | 167 | #643 | — | — |
| 1948 | 170 | #638 | — | — |
| 1947 | 160 | #666 | — | — |
| 1946 | 159 | #627 | — | — |
| 1945 | 129 | #645 | — | — |
| 1944 | 125 | #662 | — | — |
| 1943 | 122 | #690 | — | — |
| 1942 | 144 | #627 | — | — |
| 1941 | 143 | #588 | — | — |
| 1940 | 146 | #580 | — | — |
| 1939 | 143 | #564 | — | — |
| 1938 | 173 | #510 | — | — |
| 1937 | 149 | #550 | — | — |
| 1936 | 170 | #495 | — | — |
| 1935 | 164 | #494 | — | — |
| 1934 | 195 | #464 | — | — |
| 1933 | 189 | #473 | — | — |
| 1932 | 165 | #509 | — | — |
| 1931 | 184 | #473 | — | — |
| 1930 | 166 | #528 | — | — |
| 1929 | 146 | #569 | — | — |
| 1928 | 182 | #515 | — | — |
| 1927 | 188 | #513 | — | — |
| 1926 | 183 | #515 | — | — |
| 1925 | 142 | #615 | — | — |
| 1924 | 160 | #582 | — | — |
| 1923 | 164 | #565 | — | — |
| 1922 | 149 | #591 | — | — |
| 1921 | 135 | #640 | — | — |
| 1920 | 135 | #615 | — | — |
| 1919 | 108 | #676 | — | — |
| 1918 | 117 | #658 | — | — |
| 1917 | 110 | #652 | — | — |
| 1916 | 89 | #726 | — | — |
| 1915 | 106 | #643 | — | — |
| 1914 | 64 | #723 | — | — |
| 1913 | 42 | #821 | — | — |
| 1912 | 44 | #762 | — | — |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1909 | 21 | #906 | — | — |
| 1908 | 22 | #847 | — | — |
| 1907 | 21 | #836 | — | — |
| 1906 | 17 | #914 | — | — |
| 1905 | 27 | #698 | — | — |
| 1904 | 17 | #906 | — | — |
| 1903 | 18 | #834 | — | — |
| 1902 | 14 | #967 | — | — |
| 1901 | 14 | #915 | — | — |
| 1900 | 16 | #964 | — | — |
| 1899 | 18 | #787 | — | — |
| 1898 | 18 | #816 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1896 | 13 | #946 | — | — |
| 1895 | 13 | #925 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1891 | 10 | #939 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,331 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).